Blog #6

Faculty is included as a subject in "personal responsibility month" because it is your personal responsibility to get to know your professors and staff to get the most out of your education in college. You have to go out of your way to make the first move and introduce yourself to the faculty. By doing so you open yourself up to greater oportunities and that in turn helps you be more successful in class. It also helps build your network and connections so you have a better chance of landing a career after you graduate. For me the faculty member I would like to get to know further would be my accounting 2 professor, Dr. Chris Prestigiacomo. This is because I am an accounting major and even though Im not struggling in his class I would like to know him to further my personal career. Getting to know him would help me plan out my future better as a business student and would also help me to get more information about the accounting feild. Hopefully it could also lead me to making connections for internships or jobs in the future. To get to know him i could simply just visit his office during his hours and introduce myself.

Blog #5

The stregths quest book suggests that focusing on and using your strengths rather than focusing on only your weakness is the key to excellence in life and in the classroom. I agree with this because your stregths are what your good at and what comes natural to you. Utalizing them would logically help you be more successful. In relation to taking notes and listening, I think you already use your strengths to help you improve in that aspect. In terms of me I think I use all of my stregths in one way or another to improve. Adaptability helps me to be more flexible and react easy to the unexpected in class or respond quickly in conversation. Competition helps me to achieve harder than my peers in the classroom so I could get a higher grade on the test or the class itself. Relator helps me to be able to easily talk to my professors or TAs if I need help in class. I use ideation when I become interested about an appealing topic in class and I tend to take more detailed and better notes. Command helps me to push my friends to be succesful in school and helps when I help a friend learn in class. By teaching a friend it helps me look over my notes and helps me be more succesful in my class as well.

Blog #4

My strengths are a factor in my note taking and listening skills. The biggest strength factor is definitely ideation. This is because when im taking notes or listening I find that i do a lot better if I am interested in the subject matter. Ideation plays a role when I am listening to something I really enjoy because I would be more inclined to do so and be engaged the whole time. I feel like I am mostly a good listener, it might vary depending on the situation. If I'm trying to listen to something that interests me or to a person I like or care about I do a better job at it. When the speaker is boring or if I don't care about the subject is when I get easily distracted. If it's when im taking notes in class I start to just stare off into space or start doodling. When im talking to someone one on one I would seem like im listening but I would not be fully engaged. During conversation i feel like im more of a talker. I find myself speaking a lot more than the person im talking to. There will be sometimes where I like to listen but mostly i would be the one talking. 

Blog #3

I believe as human beings we all have responsibilities to uphold to yourself, family and the world that we live in. In terms of my personal self i have many responsibilities to uphold. Especially living away from my parents I feel like there is no one to tell you what you need and have to do every day. Its my responsibility to wake up on time and go to class everyday. With that comes with also doing homework and keeping up with all your assignments as well as studying for tests. Besides school work I also have a responsibility to keep good health and I achieve that by eating healthy and working out on a daily basis. When it comes to my family i hold a responsibility to basically spend time and keep in touch with them. I try to talk to my mom or dad on the phone atlest once a week and the same applies for my older brother as well.  I have to keep up with the responsibility i hold to myself so i can tell my family how well im doing in school and life in general. In terms of my responsibility to this world I have to keep in mind my actions and how they can impact everything around me.